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A Japanese man is facing a two-year prison sentence for secretly filming 1,000 women bathing in several hot springs using cameras embedded in fake rocks. The unidentified 31-year-old man from ...

INAZAWA, Aichi Prefecture--Women officially joined a so-called "naked festival" at a shrine in central Japan on Thursday for the first time in the event's 1,250 year history, donning purple robes ...

When the Italian writer Dacia Maraini visited Japan this June, her translator Noriko Mochizuki was there with her. Since ...

Michael Newman has watched as the Japanese government has expanded prison capacity, and recruited additional female prison guards (the number of elderly women criminals is rising particularly fast ...

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Life within the prison camp was difficult due to overcrowding, poor wages and lack of privacy. At its peak, the camp held ...

The company has pledged to rehabilitate the former Nara Prison into a “top-class” luxury accommodation facility, unveiling the outline of Japan’s first “prison hotel.” Yoshiharu Hoshino ...

The Japanese government’s plan to offer city-based women up to 600,000 yen (US$4,200) as an incentive to marry rural men was suspended after strong nationwide opposition. Official data showed ...

Women accounted for about 60% of those hospitalized in Japan due to attempted suicide and self-harm from December 2022 to December 2023, a report from the Japanese Society for Emergency Medicine ...

Dr Frank Murray was an Allied prisoner of war in a Japanese prison camp during World War Two He became known as the Belfast Doctor and his medical expertise, leadership and guile helped protect ...